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Sociological and anthropological insights and the study of the Hebrew Bible: A review. This article reviews the main trends in the social-scientific study of the Hebrew Bible. It focuses on the following central issues: the theoretical principles underlying this approach, anthropologists and the Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew Bible and comparative anthropology, anthropological evidence from African cultures, and the Hebrew Bible in social-scientific research: perils and prospects.

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The Study of Involuntary Migration as a Hermeneutical Guide for Reading the Jacob Narrative

Biblical Interpretation ◽

10.1163/15685152-02645p04 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (4-5) ◽

pp. 485-498 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C.A. Strine

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Asylum Seeker ◽

Scientific Study ◽

Social Scientific Study ◽

The Social ◽

Involuntary Migration ◽

Social Scientific ◽

The One

AbstractThe patriarch Jacob is an involuntary migrant. Jacob lives as an asylum seeker from Esau’s threat of violence and then as a refugee under Laban’s protection. Eventually, Jacob returns ‘home’ to Canaan, but he finds there a society totally different than the one he remembers or imagines. Jacob resembles involuntary migrants from other cultures in all of these ways. The experiences of other involuntary migrants can and should, therefore, guide interpretation of this narrative. This article, therefore, exegetes the texts concerning Jacob in Genesis 25-33 by utilising findings from the social-scientific study of involuntary migration, James C. Scott’s work on subaltern resistance, and studies on the role of trickster narratives in the Hebrew Bible. By generating new interpretive solutions to perennially problematic passages and showing the prominence of the experience of involuntary migration in Genesis, this article outlines an important new hermeneutical approach relevant not only for this text but also for a large number of texts in the Hebrew Bible concerned with involuntary migration.

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Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray

10.23943/princeton/9780691164342.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Justin Farrell

Keyword(s):

Environmental Conflict ◽

Scientific Study ◽

Theoretical Argument ◽

Moral Culture ◽

Social Scientific Study ◽

The Social ◽

Social Scientific ◽

Basic Level

This introductory chapter briefly presents the conflict in Yellowstone, elaborates on the book's theoretical argument, and specifies its substantive and theoretical contributions to the social scientific study of environment, culture, religion, and morality. The chapter argues that the environmental conflict in Yellowstone is not—as it would appear on the surface—ultimately all about scientific, economic, legal, or other technical evidence and arguments, but an underlying struggle over deeply held “faith” commitments, feelings, and desires that define what people find sacred, good, and meaningful in life at a most basic level. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

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